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Page: My job is safe ... for now

By Patrick Gavin

07/06/12 07:08 AM EDT

Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page, who's come under scrutiny within his newspaper's management for an appearance at a rally supporting the Iranian exile opposition group MEK in June, tells Talking Points Memo that he doesn't think his job is in jeopardy.

“I have been informed by my editors that my job is safe for now,” Page said in an email. “A letter of reprimand will be placed in my personnel file but after some four decades of scandal-free work at the Tribune as a reporter and, since 1984, a columnist, my superiors are properly viewing this incident as an aberration. Essentially I am being given another chance and I am pleased with that. I have submitted my upcoming speeches, paid and unpaid, for approval and I shall continue to do so.”

Page had received $20,000 for his appearance, but has since returned the money, saying he was unaware that the event was in support of the MEK.